Tag : Peter Parnham

Ande Schurr Ande has been location sound recording for a decade. He is passionate about growth and writes articles for freelancers. schurrsound.com Fritha Stalker Fritha works with the NZ Writers Guild, and has a chequered past including being EO at the Techos Guild, a biologist in Rarotonga and spending random bits […]

his year’s Screen Edge Forum pushed beyond the above the line roles commonly cited in diversity discussions to host a panel to discuss women and cinematography. Gender stereotypes perceive men as powerbrokers, deal-makers, hard-nosed practical people; women as more intuitive, perceptive, empathetic, more creative and lateral in their thinking. If that were true, men would […]

hen Leica’s Rainer Hercher talks about creamy sharpness, he is not trying to be especially eloquent. The sales director for Leica cine lenses in Germany is trying to convey how lens designers deal with an optical contradiction: how to keep your subject’s eyes in pin sharp focus and yet give their skin a texture that […]

s New Zealanders mark Anzac Day, animated documentary feature 25 April opens. Around 8,000 NZ soldiers were killed or wounded during the campaign; the equivalent number today, given population growth, would be over 35,000. What’s worse, New Zealanders were only a very small part of the whole thing. Australians suffered over three times as many […]